have you quit the labour party yet?

if I was a bookie Corbyn/Abbott both retaining their seats double would be heavily odds on.

I don't know shit about Islington N polling or if there has been any, but if they elect that other fucker, I'd be very surprised.

Big fan of how we all basically know what the insinuations about Sue Gray mean, you know, the dedicated career civil servant who went off to run a pub in the troubles, but can't actually print it for the obvious reason. https://t.co/vy1XKbUNKU

— Tom (@TPGRoberts) June 2, 2024

yeah, but it was a "raucous pub" said some MI5 press release.

tfw you abandon your bereaved spouse to stand for parliament

🚨 Oh dear @antoniabance, not a good a way to start your political campaign 🙈. @UKLabour @WMLabour pic.twitter.com/6DIS0gTm2n

— Sandwell Corruption (@CorruptSandwell) May 31, 2024

I'm told Labour MP Apsana Begum emailed local members this morning saying: "It is an absolute honour to be standing for re-election as your Labour candidate"

There had been talk of deselection by the NEC but sources have said that feels unlikely now and Begum seems confident

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) June 2, 2024

is Labour feeling alright? surely not a left-wing female Muslim MP being allowed to stand

Perhaps they did not want to reopen this

https://novaramedia.com/2022/08/17/a-domestic-violence-expert-warned-keir-starmer-that-labour-was-complicit-in-apsana-begums-abuse-he-did-nothing/

I'm sure it's just a stay of execution and they'll go after her (and others) once the GE is over at some point. They don't want any more bad publicity at this point

Antonia Bants

“I have never voted for the Tories, but because of this I can’t vote for Labour, even though overall they will be much better for the country,” he said.

“I have always voted Labour and I simply cannot any more [because of this],” said 39-year-old T O’Doherty, a small-business owner from Kent

re 20% VAT on private school fees

Make it 100% and we're talking.

labour should pay people to do tweets like this because it makes me more enthusiastic about them than anything else https://t.co/CCMXyhmJt1

— a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore (@steamedhamms) May 26, 2024

A labour voting, small-business owner from Kent.

Sorry its Monday, can't start my week like this

maybe they can work less hard and take some holidays if they're not spending tens of thousands on private education

lol who am i kidding these people were never going to vote labour

Erm im sorry is anyone under the illusion that they will follow through with the private schools thing? I'm expecting it to be junked next week

I expect Lab will nationalise Thames Water once small business owners from Kent start drinking shit in their tap water

did somebody say 'highest quality candidates'?

A Labour candidate for a seat in east London is being investigated over an allegation of sexual harassment.

Cllr Darren Rodwell, the leader of Barking and Dagenham Council and Labour’s parliamentary candidate for Barking, has been accused of “inappropriate touching” of the hands and legs of an attendee at an event last month.

The investigation emerged at the same time as a BBC report claiming Mr Rodwell asked police not to respond if they were contacted by a resident he was planning to confront at their home.

Mr Rodwell claimed he used official systems to find the address of the person who had threatened him online.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-candidate-barking-darren-rodwell-investigation-b2555315.html

(this is the 'worst tan for a black man' guy btw)

The council leader also made headlines after threatening to evict housing tenants who did not report knife crime. He later said his comments had been “sensationalised to make me sound like I was some sort of Mussolini”.

In the past five and a half years, Mr Rodwell has received more than £20,000 in gifts and hospitality.

This includes £12,448 in West Ham tickets and hospitality from a single construction firm after they secured permission to build film studios in the area.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c722dzpmrl0o

if I was a bookie Corbyn/Abbott both retaining their seats double would be heavily odds on.

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino),

Corbyn 1.44, Labour 2.62. Corbyn shortening

Abbott is a lock and I can't imagine a scenario where a slimy little briefcase shit who also happens to be a millionaire can run Corbz off his patch. Not saying it couldn't happen, but I find it completely implausible.

Odds were neck and neck at first but briefcase is drifting

As I said earlier in the thread, if it was down to the working class voters (traditional Labour voters, you might say) Corbyn would win in a cakewalk but I don't trust the Guardian reading liberals in the constituency.

Just in case though Corbyn canvassers should be making the point to waverers that one less Labour MP isn't going to mean five more years of Tory government.

A Labour candidate for a seat in east London is being investigated over an allegation of sexual harassment.
Cllr Darren Rodwell, the leader of Barking and Dagenham Council and Labour’s parliamentary candidate for Barking, has been accused of “inappropriate touching” of the hands and legs of an attendee at an event last month.

The investigation emerged at the same time as a BBC report claiming Mr Rodwell asked police not to respond if they were contacted by a resident he was planning to confront at their home.
Mr Rodwell claimed he used official systems to find the address of the person who had threatened him online.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-candidate-barking-darren-rodwell-investigation-b2555315.html

(this is the 'worst tan for a black man' guy btw)

― Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Monday, 3 June 2024 13:07 (one hour ago)

The thing that's not being spotted around all the selection outrage is that the new Labour parliamentary party is going to have *a lot* of talent in it. Plenty of really impressive people standing.

The Guardian-reading liberal vote will be split between Lab, Lib Dem and Green, with the latter two parties taking slightly more than their 2019 totals.

I’m quite hopeful for Feinstein’s numbers in Holborn and St Pancras because there are promising amounts of white lefties in addition to thousands of cross Muslims who do not want to vote for Changed Labour.

Labour 1.002, Feinstein 51, Green/Reform/LD 201

Not looking good, from this vantage point at least

Where are you getting these numbers?

bet365

Sorry, should have put the actual link

https://www.bet365.com/#/AC/B157/C20721929/D1/E102045762/F2/

I'm sorry to say I think Feinstein has no chance of winning, but if he can shrink the leader of the labour party's share significantly and embarrassingly in his own back yard it will have been worth it.

I can see anti-trans SDP and anti-trans Workers Party now both have candidates lined up in my own constituency. The (local councillor) Green guy is the only one I could conceivably vote for at this point.

Anvil I think I preferred you posting vague questions that betray zero understanding of foreign politics over these constant betting odds. Nobody asked.

Maybe update us about how Russell Brand’s conversion is sincere again, that was a good one.

Anvil loves a bet.

The size of the political betting market is tiny btw, odds are only offered for publicity purposes. The bookies don't have any particular inside track, nor do they care very much

you'd think Kieth might be kind enough to share their private polling, focus group feedback, insider gossip etc.. with bet365, one of the shitheel companies (disclosed after he'd won) who donated to his leadership office, to pay for biggest fucking campaign mailouts in Labour Party history!

The late Dawn Foster won £4k when one of the betting shops gave her 200/1 on Corbyn winning the leadership in 2015, before nominations started.

<3 good on her! Dawn was one of the best. I wish I'd done the same, but would never have rated his chances of getting on the ballot at that stage, even though I generally always go for longshots. The joke on here at the time was Hitler... Hitler... and Hitler.

Starmer has lost ilx favourite + self-confessed Blairite/Labour right-winger, Michael Crick! He won't be voting for Labour and is furious at Morgan McSweeney, who he thinks has massively overreached with all these twattish NEC appointed MPs + he could be Starmer's DomCum in govt. I wonder if he voted for Corbz, which would be quite amusing now that he's said he's not voting for Starmer.

He's a big tent believer.

Funnily enough, Dawn rented a room from him for a while.

Not a big tent?

Faiza Shaheen, the Labour leftwinger who was blocked from standing as the party’s candidate in Chingford and Woodford Green, has announced that she has resigned from the party. In a statement posted on X, she says that she has faced “a relentless campaign of unfair treatment, bullying and hostility” and that that the party’s decision to block her shows the views of local members “mean nothing” to the party’s leadership. She goes on:

I cannot, in all conscience, continue to contribute to a party that seems to think so little of people like me and has moved so far away from my values.

Shaheen has already she is considering running as an independent in the constituency and she says she will make a further announcement about her next steps tomorrow.

is she going to post in the thread then?

What?

about quitting the labour party

might have to settle for a much lower calibre of pol-celeb when ilx lurker Michael Crick logs on

oh lol

is she going to post in the thread then?

― plax (ico), Tuesday, 4 June 2024 bookmarkflaglink

I am posting for her!